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This interview was to promote Paul’s book “Many Years From Now”. Just before this they were talking about The Beatles break up and the band’s money issues and Allan Klein. At this point in the interview Paul is asked if his relationship with John was always “spiky”. He says that it wasn’t that they loved each other and he still does. 

Parkinson: (..) Was it always a spiky relationship? I mean you say you loved him and that love comes through in the book, did he love you?

Paul: Yeah, I think he did actually. (Joking around) We’ll check, excuse me for a moment… John, come on baby, did ya… ? Yes!. No, I think he did, yeah. It wasn’t actually a spiky relationship at all. It was very warm, very close and very loving, I think, of all The Beatles. We used to say, I think we were amongst the first men to come out openly, ‘cause remember you know, it was quite strange in those days and it was a long time ago. Homosexuality was still sort of largely illegal. We used to say I love him on interviews and interviewers would get slightly taken aback you know, a man saying he loves him. But I think, quite generally, I think we really did and I still do.. Um.. but the business thing came right in the middle of it and the lawyers came along with the business thing. And I talked to John many years later because it’s great saving grace that we did put our relationship back together. Thank God for that because I don’t know what I’d do now with him gone if we hadn’t. I think I would be sort of wracked with all sorts of guilt. But, we did and chatting to him one of the first things he said to me when we met after the break up and things calmed down, he said ‘Do they try to put you against me like they put me against you? Do they do that?’ and I said my God if they do. And he said it’s good, good to know because they’re always trying to pin me against you..

“I remember going around their place one weekend, and entering the bedroom to find John being prepared for something which instantly made me very curious. He was dressed in a pair of underpants and a white shirt which, for some unknown reason, he wore back to front. Then he was handed a black jacket which he put on in the same way. Now he picked up a crucifix which was, no doubt, one of his own creations. As soon as he had hold of his crucifix he started talking like a preacher. With his arm outstretched he went straight to the window which looked out on Grosse Freiheit and, kneeling down on a chair, leaned out and showed the cross to the people in the street. With his voice lifted to the top of its range, he carried on his preaching to the people below. I have no idea what the people of the Grosse Freiheit thought, but this was more than just a little laugh.” -Klaus Voormann

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NEVER SEEN BEFORE PHOTOS OF JOHN LENNON AND RINGO STARR released by John Lennon Estate. At Capitol Studio, March 9, 1973.

Paul came across in 1963 as a fun-loving, footloose bachelor who turned on his charm to devastating effect when he wanted to manipulate rivals, colleagues or women he fancied. (...) He had enormous powers of persuasion within The Beatles. He would get his own way by subtlety and suaveness where John resorted to shouting and bullying. John may have been the loudest Beatle but Paul was the shrewdest. I watched him twist the others round to his point of view in all sorts of contentious situations, some trivial, some more significant, some administrative, some creative. George told me that when he joined Paul and John in the line-up of The Quarry Men in 1958, Paul was already acting as though he was the decision-maker in the group. According to George: "I knew perfectly well that this was John's band and John was my hero, my idol, but from the way Paul talked he gave every indication that he was the real leader, the one who dictated what The Quarry Men would do and where they should be going as a group." This made sense to me because, from what I saw for myself in 1963 and later, Paul's opinions and ideas tended to prevail with The Beatles, particularly on matters of musical policy such as whether a new number was worth recording or whether the running order for the group's stage show needed altering slightly. I didn't see any of the others resist him. They seemed to welcome Paul getting his way by winning arguments with John. When Paul wanted something badly enough from Brian Epstein he would speak softly, wooing the man rather than intimidating him. Epstein's defences would melt away as Paul looked him straight in the eye. In terms of song lyrics, Paul's idea of romantic was 'Michelle', John's was 'Norwegian Wood'.

John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me: The Real Beatles Story, Tony Barrow (2005)

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NEVER SEEN BEFORE photo of John Lennon on his 40th birthday at the Hit Factory Studio, taken by Bob Gruen, October 9, 1980.

putting our heads together

John Lennon dancing with Tony King (as the Queen Elizabeth II) for the commercial of Mind Games, October 24, 1973.